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Alex North (born Isadore Soifer, December 4, 1910 – September 8, 1991) was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (one of the first jazz-based film scores), Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Alex North is a British author that is best known for writing The Whisper Man and The Shadows. His book, The Whisper Man , was an instant New York Times Bestseller and earned many high ratings and great reviews upon its release.
My first novel as Alex North, The Whisper Man, was a Sunday Times, New York Times and international bestseller. It has been translated into over 30 languages and is currently being adapted for film. It was followed by The Shadow Friend. My most recent thriller is The Half Burnt House.
Chris is the prime suspect. Katie knows this might be her last, best chance to save her brother. But she doesn't realise that this isn't the first murder - and so she doesn't know how much danger she's in... Alex North was born in Leeds, where he now lives with his wife and son.
Alex North (1910-1991) was an American composer and conductor who worked in various genres, including jazz, classical and film music. He won an Oscar for his lifetime achievement and was nominated 15 times for his scores, such as Spartacus, A Streetcar Named Desire and Cleopatra.
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Alex North (born Dec. 4, 1910, Chester, Pa., U.S.—died Sept. 8, 1991, Pacific Palisades, Calif.) was a U.S. film composer and conductor. North studied at the Curtis Institute and Juilliard. In the early 1930s he traveled to Moscow and became the sole American member of the Union of Soviet Composers. He composed ballet scores for Martha Graham ...
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Alex North (1910–1991) North was born Isadore Soifer in Pennsylvania, to parents who were émigrés from what today is Ukraine. He was a composer best known for his many movie scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), Spartacus (1960), Cleopatra (1963) and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?